Straddling live performance and various media platforms, Jessica’s creative research and artistic work centers storytelling, improvisation, cinema, and the desire for play. Cutting across all of these methodologies, and rooted in her experiences with dance and wrestling, is an emphasis on the body.
Hale was a Guest Artist at Missouri State University, AC Flora High School (SC), Hand Middle School (SC), and Kilgore College (TX). She has worked with Director Mary John Frank, Brooklyn’s Say Yes Electric Collective, and collaborates with Matthew Cumbie on a multi-year community-engaged performance project about queer world-making and intergenerational collaboration.
Jessica has experience in post-production work for World Wrestling Entertainment and HBO’s “United Skates,” stage production with Gibney Dance, and administrative roles with Megan Bascom & Dancers. She holds an MFA in Dance and recently finished a performance project about LGBTQ+ individuals in the South as a recipient of the CACHE Platform award.